I heard about them, but I never really participated in them because I never knew how to make AI Scripts. I wonder if you guys know about them? If so, do you host AI competitions or does another site host them instead? I heard that most of the AI Tournaments in StarCraft still use the vanilla or Broodwar versions of the game, not too much of SC2 at all though.

Do you have any advice on how to make any AI Scripts. It's something I was actually interested in and wanted to see if I could learn how. By the way, you have to learn C++ to get started, right?

The tournament is exclusively BWAPI which is a bot and not an AI like those traditionally seen in sc projects. It can't be run as an AI afaik. It requires minimum lua skill iirc but most likely C/C++ to manage well.

IskatuMesk wrote:The tournament is exclusively BWAPI which is a bot and not an AI like those traditionally seen in sc projects. It can't be run as an AI afaik. It requires minimum lua skill iirc but most likely C/C++ to manage well.

Sorry, I didn't get most of what you said. But I got the gist of what you're talking about.

In a way, BWAPI is very much like a trainer or hack that plays the game for you. That's essentially how it's designed. Whereas the aiscript.bin and other ingame stuff is extremely limited and has no access to vital game functions because they are locked behind an executable which would require reverse engineering. No one has done that yet because of lack of skill and dedication.